North Korea have 500 tactical nuclear weapons and 200 convetional nuclear weapons ready to deliver in matters of minutes. North Korea has capacity to burn and destroy all US military base in Japan , in South Korea, Washinton, New York, LA and etc. North Korea is ready to sacrifce to end USand Israel empire. US should withdraw all their military base in Asia and Europe now to avoid world war 3 and total destruction of America and Israel. Europe and Asia are united now against US and Israel Empire. US & Israel are addict to war and making war.

Excellent news article, for once I totally agree with The Russians. There will be a Korean war 2, it's only a matter of time. The talk on the part of the Koreans is not bluster and postering as some people seen to be set on. They are dead serious ( and dead crazy, and just plain dead if they keep this up ) my prediction? Eventually the USA will commit some real or imaginary tiff with north Korea and the north will respond with a ground invasion into south Korea ( no, not a nuclear attack. Not yet. At 1.2 million+ Their ground forces are actually their strongest weapon still, just barely ) south Korea and the united states will then immediatly respond with more troops to the region and ground war will wage for a very short amount of time, at which point the USA will start a impenetrable naval blockade around the relativly small north Korea (remember that the USA has the worlds strongest navy, bar none.) and then the united states will begin an aerial bombardment on the norths primary military targets, but they won't get far before the north Koreans (yes they are crazy enough to do this) will see that they are essentially doomed and will immediatly respond by using their 160 mile range soviet built short range ballistic missiles and will, sadly, probably hit Seoul with several small nukes (less than 25kiloton each) at once to up the damage, and possibly may target tokyo although the chances of the hitting tokyo are slim with the intense anti missile system japan has, it may be worth it to try with multiple missiles, say 5 or 6, because one of I may get through, and even one 25-30kt blast in the heart of tokyo + the fallout would absolutly devastate japan, the USA and frankly the world, because japan is such an economic powerhouse. Well, we all know the next step, the USA used it's nukes on another country for only the second time in history.

Total elapsed time in the war- only a a month or two max. The result? Seoul, possibly another couple of the most populated cities in south Korea are rubble, with mushroom clouds over them, remotely possible Tokyo is that way to. Immediatly afterword, Pyongyang is literally non existent, wiped clean off the map, and all it's many inhabitants, by at least a 3-6 megaton nuke delivered by a us jet probably, but it could also easily be a trident missile from a submarine right off the cost of korea-in fact, that's more likely than a jet. Full scale nuclear war by the USA will follow, one or two other cities may be nuked, depending on how many cities the north Koreans hit, and tactical nukes (ranging between 15-300 or so kilotons) will follow, destroying ALL nuclear reacters, storage facilities, and anything that even LOOKS like a missile bay will be utterly and unceremoniously nuked (if they're big or underground) or pounded into "year zero" by conventional bombs and cruise missiles. The entire Korean Penn. Is sadly ravaged then, the north worse off, and the government is toppled, and the USA will have made an example of them to Iran an other aspiring nuclear enemies that it is willing to negotiate but will not be threatened. Oh and this is no fiction ladies and gentelmen, facts. Cold hard facts within a decade 90% sure, in some form like what I said, with some variables. Please let me know what you thought of this everybody. As a last note to the first guy who posted, please don't display youself as a fool. Nk has at a max 10-15 or so tiny nukes, enough to wreak awful havoc, but compared to the 20,000 (rounded) warheads and bombs the usa has, well it's hardly WW3 let's just say that. And even assuming they had the 700 you pulled from somewhere, 700 still isn't enough to match 20,000, especially considering that they can't even reach the continental us yet (gotta love the pacific) in short, as bad as this is, it is not Eurasia versus the western world as your vivid imagination ascribed it to. Jonathan C. Oh and I gotta mention, the Washington and new York parts of your message are truly funny; seriously, what are you on? They can't even reach LA and they're gonna hit new York?? Your crackers.

I don`t understand why North Korea are threatening the US at this time.
Could someone please enlighten me?

Hey carole, I'm the guy who posted above you. North Korea feels like the USA Is trying to control, or even take them over, either by military or political means. The rhetoric pouring out of pyongyang is that the USA "Is a great bullie and is trying to destroy our way of life..." etc etc. And you'd think then that it's just a communication error; that diplomacy can easily work. The problem is that 1. North Korea will never believe the USA in anything they say, they'll never trust us no matter what we say and 2. North Korea NEEDS heavy war rhetoric and frankly, a war (that doesn't completely destroy them) because it is an absolute dictatorship and the dictator is literally like a father-figure (albeit a horrible one) to the people, they all but worship him. Therefor, in order to maintain the "safe" feeling that's keeping the north Koreans brainwashed and from revolt, they must feel like their leader/father/"god" is strong, strong enough to repel any and all attacks, and he knows that. That's the core reason for his incessant drive to war, and that's another reason why it's inevitable. #3 Many people, myself included, feel that the nk leader is actually insane (think about it, the capability to destroy cities in the hands of a man insane!) he often lies to his people about, for example, Hollywood movies, which play in nk, and says that HE made them an directed them, (and they buy that lol) and I believe he actually thinks he did. He truly is insane, or at the very least is completly unstable, and therefor nothing can be put past him, and that's another reason why he's threatening the USA. Last reason, reason #4: Frankly, their half right. Though it's not nearly a bad as they say, they do have reason to be supsicous of the united states involving themselves in north koreas buisiness. I believe that it's perfect just to want to keep nukes out of nks hands, the united states has done far worse to countries it has been involved in in the past, perfect example being Iran. Part the reason Iran is so messed up today is because the united states stuck it's nose where it didn't belong, they were the key backers of many coups in Iran, primarily the last one that established the supreme religious leader in charge of the government. The Iran post-united states involvment is highly different and changed (and more dangerous) than the Iran of 50 years ago. I could go on, there are a whole slew of examples is south America of how the USA has covertly, through the CIA and such, organized the overthrow of governments many times. So yes in conclusion to point 4, the USA has a bad rep, and anyone who denies it isn't being a free-minded human being, and isn't seeing the facts. Don't get me wrong, I like the USA well enough, but they've made some very, very stupid decisions.

All four points put together equal one big bad war coming up, and are the reason for the threats by north korea.

To john c. you are a good writer and i do believe what u say is very true and that you prob are 90% right , but we will always have idiots like achilles d. who really just want to add some kind of meaningless input and get some people to quiver but it really just wont happen. when you want to write on a blog please have your facts handy and don't try to act like you know anything about the military until you have served "A.D", or at least read a newspaper column and maybe a comic book because world war three is eminent but not anytime soon or with north korea.....we will obliterate them and quite frankly make a laughing stock out of NK.

I can not believe that there are so many blind ppl. North Korea is China's puppet, Iran is Russia's puppet. While they keep the US DOD busy they are planning the big one. Every empire grows and falls, it is the time for the US to loose its SuperPower status in the world, thanks to those who voted for this anti-american presiden. The Iranian Revolutionary Gaurd refered to Obama as "the chocolate was licked off of him just to expose a weaker George Bush".
Obama will show his balls and determination by shooting down any and all North Korean missle peaceful or not out the air to show he does have the balls to nuke if so needed.

The concern is with China. North Korea in itself is not a serious threat to the United Sates, unless it's actions draw in other nations. China is a progressive, although guarded, economic superpower who will not let its nasty little neighbor interfere with China's aspirations to fully develop their full economic potential.

This is just a burp in the tube.